Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), March 2014

by: transmit101
text: Android developer (Remote not possible)
LONDON<p><a href="http://mixlr.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixlr.com</a><p>Mixlr is a platform for social live audio. We build simple and intuitive ways to share and create interaction around live audio streams. We have over two million registered users, including over 30,000 monthly active broadcasters, and we’re growing fast.<p>We’re looking to meet a great Android developer to join our small, passionate team here in London, and take responsibility for bringing the full Mixlr experience to the Android world. You will have the opportunity to drive the development of our Android app from the first git commit onwards.<p>The most important single characteristic you will possess is a passion for building great mobile apps, but here are some more attributes which would come in useful:<p>---<p>* a passion for implementing fantastic user interfaces<p>* knowledge of live streaming protocols, especially on mobile<p>* enthusiasm for music apps and&#x2F;or audio programming<p>* experience working with JSON and RESTful APIs and web services<p>* broad knowledge of different Android devices<p>* experience with test-driven development<p>* proficiency of at least one other language apart from Java, especially: C, C++, Ruby or JavaScript<p>---<p>You can read more about Mixlr on our Dev Portal[1]. If you would like to discuss this opening more then drop us an email: jobs@mixlr.com.<p>[1] <a href="http://dev.mixlr.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.mixlr.com</a>

by: josscrowcroft
text: Finance-industry startup seeks data scientist for ongoing part-time lead role.<p>We’re looking for an engineer with a finance background (or a finance person with an engineering background!) to help out behind the scenes at Open Exchange Rates.<p>Open Exchange Rates[0] is the fastest-growing currency data API on the web, loved by the likes of Etsy, Shopify, Kickstarter and thousands more.<p>We have a super-exciting backend engineering project involving overhauling a large part of our platform, over which you&#x27;ll have complete autonomy within the requirements.<p>Project scope, budget and timeframe are all negotiable for the right contractor, but likely to be 2-3 months, plus ongoing work available.<p>--<p>REQUIRES:<p>* Python, client-side and server-side JavaScript (+PHP and PhantomJS a bonus); intermediate sysadmin skills<p>* Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases<p>* Understanding of foreign exchange markets<p>* Designing and implementing algorithms for financial data analysis<p>* Understanding of APIs, methods of online data collection, and authorisation mechanisms<p>* Ideally: Expert front-end development skills in HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS (negotiable in project scope)<p>* Remote possible; UK preferred; London ideal.<p>* Chutzpah<p>--<p>CONTACT:<p>Get in touch with josscrowcroft@gmail, with a little about yourself, your work, your story and what makes you come alive. Relevant experience also appreciated.<p>[0] <a href="https://openexchangerates.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openexchangerates.org</a>

by: andreasilenzi
text: NYC&#x2F;NJ&#x2F;Remote
Free Music Archive
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freemusicarchive.org</a><p>WE ARE:<p>The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal MP3 downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. We&#x27;re one of the largest repositories of Creative Commons music on the web, and our curated approach means it&#x27;s not just free music, it&#x27;s good music. We&#x27;re based out of WFMU&#x27;s magic factory in beautiful Jersey City, NJ.<p>YOU ARE:<p>A skilled backend engineer, with solid background in modern languages and techniques, who loves going down the rabbit hole to solve difficult problems related to performance, user experience, and long-term structural stability of a modern, high-traffic website (and who doesn&#x27;t mind working with legacy code).<p>We&#x27;re also ideally looking for significant overlap with at least a good chunk our current stack:<p>* mostly backend: PHP, MySQL, RDS, S3, Redis, Sphinx, Memcached, Chef; REST &amp; API design generally<p>* and sometimes frontend: HTML5, JS, CSS3, Flash<p>Along with experience with reasonably modern source control (Git&#x2F;SVN&#x2F;Hg) and build practices.  Note that we aren&#x27;t zealots about any of the above; what we&#x27;re most after is solid engineering chops -- if you&#x27;re currently working with Rails or Django or Scala but don&#x27;t mind digging into modern PHP for a good cause, that&#x27;s fine.  We need someone willing to roll up their sleeves and take long-term ownership of the project and address problems holistically.<p>You&#x27;ll be working solo with a non-technical project manager, so your outstanding communication skills &amp; technical leadership abilities will be greatly appreciated. Work will be very part-time (5-10 hours per week); pay would probably be around $45 per hour.<p>At the Free Music Archive, you&#x27;ll have the chance to make valued, long-term strategic contributions to one of WFMU&#x27;s most important projects. For more info, please send a note to andrea -at- freemusicarchive.org, including a CV or a resume, your GitHub profile (or other portfolio) and any other information about yourself you think would be helpful for us to know.

by: yegg
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS: DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA)<p>If you&#x27;re an avid DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we&#x27;re trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at <a href="https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dukgo.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;company&#x2F;hiring</a><p>Right now we&#x27;re in need of some freelancing help in two areas: 1) devops (using Chef); 2) backend (using Perl).

by: rapind
text: Remote<p>Looking for a remote pair, around the intermediate to senior level. Possible transition to salary down the road.<p>----<p>Essential:<p>* willing to embrace pair programming<p>* fluent in english<p>* excellent internet connection<p>* available during EST (-500)<p>* vim (I hate to specify an editor, but it&#x27;s required due to the nature of how we remote pair. Don&#x27;t have to be pro.)<p>* javascript<p>* css<p>* html<p>* ruby<p>----<p>Nice to have:<p>* pairing experience<p>* node<p>* express<p>* coffeescript<p>* rails<p>* sinatra<p>* angular<p>* sass &#x2F; less &#x2F; stylus<p>* haml &#x2F; jade &#x2F; slim<p>* postgresql &#x2F; mysql<p>* redis<p>----<p>No agencies, ninjas, or rock stars please.<p>-- dave_at_pairshaped_dot_ca<p>P.S. We&#x27;ve been working with nodejs lately and I would love the opportunity to pair with experienced noders and siphon some of your knowledge, even if it&#x27;s just now and then (paid of course).

by: albedo
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC area<p>Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing.<p><pre><code>  - Exceptional talent only: $100&#x2F;hr minimum rate.
  - No recruiters or spam. We&#x27;re developers too and we only match consultants with projects that fit their expertise and interest.
  - Serious clients only: Wanna hear about a disruptive social network for cats that &quot;just needs a coder&quot;? Neither do we.
  - Freelancers with side projects or startups are especially welcome!
</code></pre>
If that&#x27;s appealing, you can read more and sign up at: <a href="http://getlambda.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getlambda.com&#x2F;</a><p>We&#x27;ve posted about this on HN a few times and have been amazed by the response. I apologize in advance if it takes a while for us to get back to you -- we interview everyone personally and are still ramping up the process.<p>Right now, we&#x27;re particularly looking for NYC-based iOS and Android devs, as well as designers.

by: jxf
text: Remote (anywhere within UTC-8 to UTC+2)<p>PROJECT: Design and build a minimal, clean, static site for a software developer (namely, me!). You&#x27;ll author SASS and a small number of HAML templates that serve as the foundation for the personal site, then use Middleman [0] to actually generate the site along with their blogging extension [1].<p>[0] <a href="http://middlemanapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;middlemanapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="http://middlemanapp.com/basics/blogging/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;middlemanapp.com&#x2F;basics&#x2F;blogging&#x2F;</a><p>MOTIVATION: I&#x27;ve been giving a lot of talks lately, and I know my co-founder would appreciate it if I spent some time on making my web presence a little more legitimate -- right now, I don&#x27;t have a public site that I blog about or do anything interesting with, and I&#x27;d like to change that.<p>I&#x27;d love to do this myself, but I know that if I try I won&#x27;t be able to stop myself from going down the rabbit hole of writing my own blog engine first, and that&#x27;s not going to be good for my sanity. Better to outsource this to someone smart!<p>SKILLS: If you&#x27;re interested, you should...<p>-- Have a good eye for minimalism, clean lines, and a focus on content<p>-- Know how to write well-structured SASS (and know your way around Compass to avoid reinventing wheels), and how to write organized HAML<p>-- Able to write some minimal Ruby (enough to wire the Middleman glue together with YAML and some configuration blocks)<p>-- Understand how to write a readable, understandable git commit<p>-- Be able to communicate in written English at a reasonable level (if you can read HN, you&#x27;re probably good!)<p>My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I&#x27;ll try to get back to you.

by: avifreedman
text: Local (SF Bay area) or remote.<p>PROJECT: Front-end assistance with graphing interface for real-time and historic network traffic statistics.<p>WHO WE ARE: CloudHelix is doing a modern network visibility and control platform on top of an in-house postgres-fronted clustered column store database (API is DBI or REST).<p>OUR CURRENT STACK: jquery, underscore, D3, node, postgres, c, go<p>We&#x27;re looking for something a little snazzier than Highcharts or current graphite frontends (either developed or adapted is fine), capable of doing 10-20+ 1-second refresh graphs and ideally with some interactivity in a good-looking dashboard view.  Happy to provide access to our beta portal and examples of what we like&#x2F;dislike and pay for some scoping time.<p>Could consider hourly, or a first phase of discovery&#x2F;mockup then agree on a project price.

by: frankdenbow
text: Remote (but based out of NYC)<p>Ruby Developer
Looking for a Ruby developer to help on StartupThreads, a company that makes custom merchandise for many of your favorite startups. We have a beta release of a new dashboard and API for merchandise distribution that some part time help with code review and pushing a few new features.<p>Looking for folks with experience with devops &amp; api design ideally.<p>Javascript &#x2F; Front End Developer
Longer term project, building a WYSIWYG tshirt designer tool (similar in basic function to: <a href="http://www.customink.com/lab" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.customink.com&#x2F;lab</a>). There are many interesting technical challenges involved that would be fun to work on. Experience with Raphael.js and HTML5 would be ideal.<p>Contact frank@startupthreads.com

by: beck5
text: ShareLaTeX.com - Front end developer&#x2F;designer - Remote<p>We are an online LaTeX editor that very recently went open source, we are now looking for someone to join the team who will focus on the front end. The site is very functional but a long way off where it should be in terms of design and UX. We want someone to come in with a lot of ideas to help us shape how this tool will look and feel. The application is used by thousands of scientists around the world to help them work more efficiently. We have advertised this as a full time position as well but to be honest we are just looking for the right person, a good freelancer for a couple of months could be perfect as well.<p>Please get in touch for a chat if this is of interest. henry.oswald@sharelatex.com

by: mattcollins
text: London, UK (No remote.)<p>We&#x27;re a successful London-based startup that is building the future of craft hobbies online. We&#x27;re developing some fun, innovative models of community, commerce and content, along with great technology to underpin that.<p>We&#x27;re looking for one or two seasoned, full-stack PHP developers to help us architect and build from the ground up a key new system for us, likely using Symfony2 or similar.<p>The project is for 3-6 months+, starting ASAP.<p>Please contact me at matt[at]broadmargins[dot]com if you&#x27;d like to learn more.

by: karussell
text: SEEKING FREELANCER, remote possible.<p>We:<p>GraphHopper is a young Open Source project and we provide an efficient alternative to commercial routing software. GraphHopper uses OpenStreetMap as data source and is fast, platformindependent and very flexible.<p>We offer commercial support and consulting for GraphHopper. We are looking for a Java developer per project and later if desired also for long-term employment. With us you work directly on GraphHopper or for our customers. You&#x27;ll find more details on graphhopper.com or just email us!<p>You:<p>You have a passion for fast algorithms and you have solid Java knowledge. You don&#x27;t fear topics like GIS or graph algorithms and you like working in a remote team from home office. Additionally you should have no fear in applying or learning TDD, as well as contributing in the open.<p><a href="http://graphhopper.com/#contact" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphhopper.com&#x2F;#contact</a><p><a href="http://graphhopper.com/public/jobs/java-dev.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphhopper.com&#x2F;public&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;java-dev.html</a>

by: webjay
text: SEEKING FREELANCER, New York, remote work<p>I work with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS on the frontend; compiled from Hogan&#x2F;Handlebars, CoffeeScript and LESS&#x2F;SASS with Backbone as the logic handler. 
For the backend I primarily use Node.js again either built with JavaScript or CoffeeScript. I have also worked with PHP and Django.
Components are installed with Npm and Bower, then compiled and minified via Grunt.<p>I have web experience in many areas dating back to 1996. I also maintain a web application called Gignal: <a href="http://www.gignal.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gignal.com</a><p>For more info, please check: 
<a href="http://github.com/webjay" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webjay</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/webjay" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;webjay</a> | <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfsaxberg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;jfsaxberg</a><p>Contact me via jacob@webcom.dk

by: EGreg
text: Remote, anywhere in the world. Preferably Russian-speaking, but not required.<p>Our company, Qbix, has developed several really popular apps, including &quot;Calendar&quot; and &quot;Calendar Plus&quot; for the Mac, and &quot;Groups&quot; for iOS. They enjoy 25k, 2.5k and 20k daily active users, respectively. (See more at <a href="http://qbix.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qbix.com</a>)<p>We are looking for a person to completely take over development of Calendar + Calendar Plus for the Mac. We are developers ourselves and use Mercurial for version control. Reach out to us for info to check out the codebase.<p>+ Must be extremely proficient with Objective C and Cocoa<p>+ When reaching out, please include links to your portfolio, especially if you have apps for the Mac or iOS.<p>+ Your work will be used by hundreds of thousands of people every month. With great exposure comes great responsibility.<p>Simply send an email to &quot;greg&quot; and the domain is qbix.com .

by: WFMU
text: Remote is OK<p>WFMU seeks to engage a firm or individual on a contract basis to act as Software Architect for its Audience Engine Project. Audience Engine is an open source platform and strategy which will provide digital distribution of audio, video and audience engagement tools fully integrated with social fundraising tools, to radio stations, journalists and digital libraries. The functional requirements for Audience Engine are based on WFMU’s existing platform which can be seen live at wfmu.org. None of WFMU&#x27;s existing code base will be utilized in Audience Engine. Audience Engine will be developed on top of an existing open source CMS system which will function as an Application Framework that can be integrated with any web based Front End. Whenever possible, Audience Engine will utilize existing open source components, such as CRM, Chat&#x2F;Comment and Crowdfunding software by creating open source enhancements to provide specific functionality. Several new applications will be developed as open source CMS modules. For some functions, best of breed commercial components will be implemented initially until open source versions become fully functional.<p>The software architect shall guide and analyze the work of two or more full-time coders who will be hired by WFMU on a permanent basis. Deliverables will include a software blueprint and timeline for the Minimum Viable Product and post-MVP functions of Audience Engine, as well as user interface design. The purpose of the Audience Engine is to help media institutions become self sustaining entities, by providing them with a platform and strategy for distributing their content online, building meaningful traffic and audience around that content, engaging that audience socially around that content and then effectively raising individual donations via crowdfunding. The elements of the Audience Engine are to be built in a modular way so that existing media entities can use its various elements in conjunction with their existing sites and platforms. Interested parties should contact General Manager Ken Freedman at ken at wfmu dot org

by: pd19
text: SF Bay Area (must be local)<p>PROJECT: We are a stealth-mode start-up in Palo Alto looking to release our product as a mobile app on both iOS and Android.  We&#x27;ve gotten quite a bit of interest in our product&#x2F;company from our extensive network of prospective users and investors in the bay area.<p>SKILLS: iOS+Android app developer.  
-Must be local to bay area
-We&#x27;d need you to provide end-to-end solution with both backend and UI&#x2F;UX&#x2F;Design.  If you want to partner with another freelancer on it, that&#x27;s fine.
-Familiar with appstore and googleplay submission process. 
-Extra points if you&#x27;ve previously built apps that have successfully scaled<p>COMPENSATION: cash + equity<p>If you&#x27;re interested and meet requirements, please respond with your contact info.  Thanks!

by: majiwater
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Location: Preferably SF based, remote possibilities for exceptional candidates.<p>Looking for hands on video dev skills. If you can work around mobile and video with excellent knowledge of codecs and streaming as well as making video experiences fast, seamless and graceful on mobile, then we are looking for you.<p>Job Link: <a href="http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=&amp;page=Job%20Description&amp;j=oTTtYfwX" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hire.jobvite.com&#x2F;CompanyJobs&#x2F;Careers.aspx?c=&amp;page=Job...</a>

by: amac
text: Remote.<p>PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.<p>MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)<p>SKILLS: iOS development. (objective-c, c++, cocoa etc)<p>The project is called &#x27;Octopus&#x27; and our temporary website is at octopus.org. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I&#x27;ll try to get back to you.

by: scotthtaylor
text: Remote<p>I&#x27;m looking for someone who&#x27;s pretty proficient in Objective-C and native iOS applications (as well as Parse SDK). I&#x27;m an intermediate developer but would really appreciate someone&#x27;s help to help me push a project to the finish line.<p>My email address is in my profile. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Thanks so much.

by: jbeard4
text: REMOTE<p>Are you an expert PhoneGap developer? Do you love to use CSS3 transforms to make user animations buttery smooth? Are you passionate for UX?<p>I&#x27;m the founder of a small consulting company which is developing a cutting edge PhoneGap app. Seeking PhoneGap experts for remote work. Let me know your experience, rates and availability.<p>Cheers, 
jake@minnow.io

by: splay
text: Front end developer<p>Seeking an expert level front-end developer in 
NYC or REMOTE to collaborate on interesting and challenging
projects. Inquire within.

by: nclx
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - <a href="http://yoloapps.us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yoloapps.us</a><p>- Mobile UI &amp; UX
- iOS devs
- Android devs<p>Only experienced.<p>Thanks,
Nicolas :)

by: devopsproject
text: US preferred<p>PROJECT: Need to restore an ASP.NET application to a new server. We have the source code and the database and need an experienced devops who can get the application up and running and who can quickly identify and fix any problems that may arise due to permissions, folder structure, external dependencies, etc.<p>Application uses the following:
* MSSQL 2000 Database
* Most files look like .NET Framework 1.1
* Mostly VB.net, a few C# files<p>Please email a brief summary of your experience and any additional questions you may have and we can get started: devopsproject@gmail.com